Globally, states use rural-to-urban resettlement to fuel development, yet this formal process consistently generates its own informalities. Using a comparative case study of China—contrasting its affluent coast with its poorer hinterland—this book reveals how informality not only persists after resettlement but performs essential functions, critically challenging the effectiveness of prevailing policies. Theoretically, the study leverages the innovative Credibility Thesis, applying its For...

This Handbook is a systematic and complete introduction that outlines the key points and requirements of medical waste's emergency disposal and management. It covers all stages of medical waste removal, from its generation, collection, classification, packaging identification, transportation, and treatment to its final disposal. Additionally, this book covers medical waste-related technologies and management essentials used in disease prevention, as well as environmental pollution preventi...

This book presents a unified set theory-based framework for spacecraft dynamics and control under multi-source uncertainties and data-sparse conditions. First, it develops reduced-order modeling techniques for high-dimensional spacecraft dynamics by introducing interval and convex set-based uncertainty descriptions, enabling efficient model reduction while rigorously quantifying unknown-but-bounded uncertainties without reliance on large-sample statistical assumptions. Second, the book add...

Computer vision is an application-oriented field, where various applications correspond to distinct computer vision tasks. Consequently, this book is organized based on the taxonomy of these tasks: image processing, visual recognition, and scene reconstruction.Image processing, the foundational step, includes topics like convolution, edge detection, and image segmentation, often referred to as low-level vision tasks. This section covers classical algorithms. Visual recognition, or ...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Conference, on Social Computing, ICSC 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during December 12–13, 2025.The 22 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections as follows: Advancements in methods for the broadly defined field of social computing; Online social network analysis, mining, and modeli...

This book examines the strategies Chinese news media have implemented to address the challenges posed by the mobile internet to Chinese journalistic practices and businesses.Using a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods, the book analyzes the transformation of media convergence in China based on the characteristics of the mobile internet. From three key perspectives—media organization, content, and users—the book discusses the difficulties Chinese journalism face...

Why do some clinicians make better decisions than others?Do all clinicians become better decision-makers over time?Is decision-making in healthcare an independent and trainable skill?This book is about the practice of medicine and the decision-making of the people we entrust with our care. While treatments, technologies and professional roles have evolved over the years, the essential act of decision-making has remained constant.Th...

This book focuses on the formation of human social consciousness and develops a naturalist approach to social normativity. Beginning from Marx's uncompleted concept of social consciousness, the book retrospects the studies about collective intentionality in the area of philosophy of mind and social ontology. Specifically, a reinterpretation of social consciousness with respect to collective intentionality can offer us a new, naturalistic approach to the social formation and normativity. Ac...

This book analyzes the latest development trend of international medical waste disposal technology, combines the current situation of medical waste management and disposal in China and the requirements of the international community for medical waste, and comprehensively and systematically summarizes the relevant contents of medical waste treatment and disposal technology and management practices. It is suitable for source classification, technology screening, engineering construction, fac...

System Simulation Techniques with MATLAB and Simulink comprehensively explains how to use MATLAB and Simulink to perform dynamic systems simulation tasks for engineering and non-engineering applications.This book begins with covering the fundamentals of MATLAB programming and applications, and the solutions to different mathematical problems in simulation. The fundamentals of Simulink modelling and simulation are then presented, followed by coverage of intermediate level m...

This book introduces readers to the fundamentals of and recent advances in federated learning, focusing on reducing communication costs, improving computational efficiency, and enhancing the security level. Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm which enables model training on a large body of decentralized data. Its goal is to make full use of data across organizations or devices while meeting regulatory, privacy, and security requirements.The book starts wit...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th China National Conference on Big Data and Social Computing, BDSC 2024, held in Harbin, China, during August 8–10, 2024.The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 141 submissions. The papers in the volume are organized according to the following topics: digital society and public security; modelling and simulation of social systems; internet intelligent algorithm governanc...